Splash Screen (Configuring Computer)

Has anyone got any tips or trix on how to tell a user that his/hers computer is beeing installed/configured?
When using the "modify configuration" job there's a nice splash screen presented on top of the ctrl+alt+delete window which prevents users from logging in. Does anyone know what file/files generates this nice thing?

If someone's got any ideas on this one I'd be super glad to hear them.

I personally don't know of any VB scripting (or powershell) function to do this but one may exist. I'm guessing Altiris has some code calling an API.

KSweet does some programming and may know.

jiiim said:

Has anyone got any tips or trix on how to tell a user that his/hers computer is beeing installed/configured?
When using the "modify configuration" job there's a nice splash screen presented on top of the ctrl+alt+delete window which prevents users from logging in. Does anyone know what file/files generates this nice thing?

If someone's got any ideas on this one I'd be super glad to hear them.

The script is called with a parameter $reason. If that exists, then it's a red background and the custom message. If it isn't then the background is blue, and the "do not attempt... " bit is our company name.

I can post the script somewhere, so long as nobody laughs too much at the decidedly dodgy coding!!

Yes, I have an MSGINA file I edited and renamed. I just have that copied over to the machine and then point the registry to that file when I want to change the CTRL-ALT-DEL lingo to "Configuring Computer." Then after all the changes are done, switch it back to the original.

Here is for the keyboard and mouse.

All you have to do is disable the kbdclass and mouclass services in the registry. Here is the code I use to do that

These .IMG files don't have this new msgina.dll file staged that i am attempting to load so what i would like to do is copy the modified msgina.dll to C:\msgina.dll using WINPE and then add the registry key into the image using WINPE so that the new msgina.dll is read as soon as Altiris boots the PC to perform the configuring computer task (right before it's controlable from the Altiris console and before any additional scripts are run)

Doing this after communication is established with the Altiris Console after imaging would defeat its purpose in my environment.

I just don't understand because i know that my modified msgina.dll file is a good working file as i've tested it by doing the process manually and using the command i mentioned above WINPE does indeed load the registry key into the registry.

The key is there but for some odd reason is not being read properly....

Advice is appreciated on how to get this to work.

PS: I am not overwriting the existing non altered microsoft msgina.dll in C:\windows\system32. I am staging a modified copy under C:\